“You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.”

“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been”

“What's hit's history: what's missed's mystery.”

“BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN”

“Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe. In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.”

“A pigeon a day keeps the natives away.”

“They found, like many explorers before them, that somehow, in their absence, they had got into trouble at home.”